Edificio Bacardi

This guide to Edificio Bacardi in Havana opens with thirsty Americans crossing from Key West during Prohibition to find a marble bar with no rules. It follows the rum company's decision to build an art deco headquarters raised at astonishing speed, with a public bar on the ground floor and a mezzanine restaurant positioned to watch the counter below. You'll hear where the granite and terracotta came from, and the story behind the bronze bat that gives the tower its emblem, tracing back to the company's first distillery in Santiago de Cuba. Stand across the street to take in the full stepped crown against the sky.